"Database" seems like the wrong word for the headline. Did they delete the training data (the photos and labels)? The models trained on the data? Both? The article only appears to talk about the training set.

If they only deleted the training data, but not the ML models generated from them, then you get the worst of both worlds (people still using the models to do things, and no way to validate or improve the fairness of said models by adding or removing labelled training data).